[Deutsche Welle] Security has been stepped up for Mali's presidential second-round vote, which incumbent Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is expected to win. Dozens of attacks and threats during last month's initial round kept many voters away.

[Nation] The pain that motorists are experiencing at the pump due to rising costs of fuel is being caused by an opaque pricing formula that is largely benefiting oil marketing companies and the government in the form of taxes.

[Premium Times] The anti-graft agency, EFCC, has responded to an allegation by an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari that it and other security agencies may have worked for the benefit of the embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

[Premium Times] Below is the full text of the speech delivered by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomole, at a press conference he addressed on August 10, 2018 to respond to issues raised by the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, at world press conference on August 8, 2018.

[Guardian] National public affairs analyst, Boladale Adekoya, has advised the leadership and members of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to do everything within their power to ensure former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, clinch the presidential ticket of the party if they are serious about defeating President Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) come 2019.

[The Herald] Mr Nelson Chamisa and his MDC-Alliance cannot prove to the Constitutional Court that presidential election results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) were wrong as they did not make use of a provision in the Electoral Act which allows for the recounting of votes within 48 hours, the Zanu-PF legal team has said.